Certainly, no car is perfect without rose-colored glasses. It's always about compromise.
I'm not about to plunk down $20+K on any current hybrid either. Yet Prius/EV1/etc enthusiasm shows there's a healthy market for eco-friendly vehicles even in their infancy.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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